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by wereallterrrist 1280 days ago
Lol folks werent even reading my thread properly, all, before throwing out the most obvious, invalidated assumptions. All of the top replies implying I dont know what im talking about.

Sorry folks, devices that ive never, ever signed into, that have never left Seattle, now think theyre in fking Mexico anytime i use a google service. Again, not logged in, but also on browsers that clear everything on exit. The ONLY POSSIBLE EXPLANATION, PERIOD, is that Google took my location data from maps in Mexico and tainted my Seatte IP with it (as i was using my seattle-apt-server as my vpn tailscale exit node)

And to elaborate, the ONLY app on my phone with access to my location is Google Maps.

OP, I 100% believe you, sorry for the comments that clearly just tapped something out without thinking it through.

The computer this screenshot was taken from has never left Seattle. It's a naive Windows machine, no VPN, no nothing, and yet... this: https://i.imgur.com/kVgz1RD.png

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Yes, I did notice that replies to your post were blaming cookies and some incorrect assumptions - hence I wanted to put the time in writing this post separately.

To further validate our assumptions - try to use google maps daily for at least 2 weeks while in Seattle using that exit IP. Logic tells me that it should update once more to the new location (I'd think it's unlikely to be a once off update due to the dynamic nature of IP).